Community . was on January 1, 1990 that Mr. Bean made his television debut on England’s ITV, Rowan Atkinson began developing the type more than a decade earlier, as he was pursuing his master’s degree in electrical engineering. “I was asked during my first term at Oxford to do a sketch on this one-night show in the Oxford Playhouse, and I’d never written anything,” Atkinson recalls inside the Story of Mr. Bean, an attribute on The Whole Bean DVD. “I’m not necessarily naturally a writer, i really just needed to invent type of A few minutes of something at 48 hours’ notice. I simply stood before the mirror and commenced to mess about with my face. Which strange, surreal, sort of non-speaking character evolved.”

Even most dedicated fans have trouble reconciling the fact that only 14 episodes of the live-action series were ever produced. It did, of course, spawn two movies, an animated series (which returned to British television a few months ago), a video game, and some books, including Mr. Bean’s Definitive and Extremely Marvelous Help guide to France.

3. THE SERIES WAS BROADCAST IN NEARLY 200 COUNTRIES All over the world.

Because the almost all the comedy is physical, not narrative, Mr. Bean has not yet gotten lost in translation. “There doesn’t appear to be a country on earth, you aren't that we have visited, or indeed none which i have come across, who don't manage to get him, who don’t apparently understand and relish the character of Mr. Bean,” Atkinson told ABC. “I think, and I’ve always assumed, it’s because he’s basically a youngster held in a man’s body."

4. ATKINSON HAS FAITH IN HIS FACE.

Whilst the beginning of Mr. Bean started by looking within the mirror, Atkinson decided to put faith of what he was doing along with his face beyond this concept first successful performance at Oxford. “In the sketch the following Sunday, I simply underwent a whole lot of facial expressions,” Atkinson said in a BBC World Service radio interview in January. “I’m uncertain whether there was clearly a selected narrative, a logic into it, but I did my favorite and it certainly solicited laughter. Speculate then, I’ve rarely looked at my face … I'm hoping it’s doing some tips i think it’s doing.”

5. The man WHO DIRECTED LOVE ACTUALLY DEVELOPED The smoothness WITH ATKINSON.

Atkinson’s creative partner at the time, anf the husband who helped develop the character of Mr. Bean, was writer-director-producer Richard Curtis. The 2 collaborated on Not the Nine O’Clock News and Blackadder before Mr. Bean ever hit the airwaves. Curtis would later increase the risk for jump towards the big screen since the writer of four years old Weddings plus a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, and also the writer-director of affection Actually, The Boat That Rocked, resulting in Time. (Explaining Atkinson’s cameo for each other Actually.)

6. ATKINSON WAS INSPIRED BY JACQUES TATI.

Over the years, Atkinson has repeatedly cited French comedian Jacques Tati among the great influences on Mr. Bean. “My curiosity about physical comedy was from discovering a show by Jacques Tati called Mr. Hulot’s Holiday,” Atkinson says within the Story of Bean. “It just struck a chord beside me. I so admired it, given it was an uncompromising comic attitude and setting which i really admired.”

7. MR. BEAN DOESN’T SPEAK IN FRENCH EITHER.

Before he made his small-screen debut, Atkinson used the Mr. Bean character about the audience on the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, Quebec. To make sure the character’s near-silent comedy would translate, he requested to perform for any French-speaking audience instead of the English-speaking attendees.

8. HE May have been NAMED To another VEGETABLE.

It wasn’t until shortly before Mr. Bean hit the airwaves (and after production had already commenced) how the character actually got his name. Originally, he was going to be called Mr. White. Then your show’s creators began throwing around some vegetable names, and regarded Mr. Cauliflower before selecting Mr. Bean.

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9. MR. BEAN Will be the MAN WHO LIKES TOILETS.

Mr. Bean doesn’t speak often, when performing the voice he makes use of is the same one Atkinson employed to voice “The Man Who Likes Toilets” sketch on Not the Nine O’Clock News.

10. ATKINSON THINKS MR. BEAN Is definitely an ANARCHIST.

Atkinson often refers to the character of Mr. Bean as “a child within a grown man’s body.” Along with a 2003 interview with IGN, he called him “sort of which an all-natural anarchist. But concurrently, Mr. Bean is definitely a, very self-contained character because he's so sort-of introspective and so selfish and self-centered that there's no particular need to have another individual within the scene to create him funny.”

11. YES, HE Can actually WIGGLE HIS EARS.

Mr. Bean’s legendary ear wiggle is one trait Atkinson has that is similar to his on-screen alter ego. While promoting Mr. Bean’s Holiday, ABC’s David Stratton asked “perhaps the main question in the entire interview: are you able to wiggle your ears?” Which Atkinson simply replied, “Yes, I'm able to.”

12. MR. BEAN PERFORMED On the OLYMPICS.

When London hosted the summer months Olympics this year, Mr. Bean was available to the opening ceremony, where he ushered from the games having a rendition of “Chariots of Fire.”

13. ATKINSON RETIRED THE ROLE IN LATE 2012.

In an interview using the Telegraph in November of 2012, Atkinson admitted that Mr. Bean’s time was ending. “The stuff has been most commercially successful for me-basically quite physical, quite childish-I increasingly feel I’m going to perform a lot a smaller amount of,” Atkinson said. “Apart from your proven fact that your physical ability actually starts to decline, I also think someone within their fifties being childlike turns into a little sad. You’ve got a chance to be cautious.”

14. IN 2015, BEAN ROSE AGAIN-FOR A FUNERAL.

Never say never: On March 13, 2015 a brand-new Mr. Bean sketch, “The Funeral,” premiered to celebrate Comic Relief, and in honor of Bean’s 25th anniversary.

15. MR. BEAN’S CREATORS Can't HAVE PREDICTED ITS SUCCESS.

When asked about Mr. Bean’s enduring appeal during a BBC World Service radio interview a few months ago, executive producer Peter Bennett-Jones said, “I don’t think anyone may have anticipated quite how successful and long-lived it could be. Coming up to 25 years or so is definitely an extraordinary thought because we first continued air on January 1, 1990. Mr. Bean’s been excellent to us all, and we all love Mr. Bean.”